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For the same reason that monospaced fonts are the correct choice for code: so text can line up. If you you’ve used the terminal, it displays structured information really nicely because of this.

Also in regards to the monospaced fonts, you can easily calculate how much space a block of text will take on the screen.

They do have the Bloomberg anywhere portal which is web-based, but the main app isn’t web based.



> the main app isn’t web based.

Source? I heard this from the developers directly.

> For the same reason that monospaced fonts are the correct choice for code: so text can line up.

This isn't a requirement for code. Coding in variable width fonts actually works fine.


I don't think I've ever met a single programmer that has ever used variable width fonts for code. Maybe you're the exception?

But the vast, vast, majority of people think otherwise.




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